| Contents | 6 |
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| Preface | 19 |
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| Contributors | 21 |
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| List of Tables | 28 |
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| List of Figures | 31 |
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| PART I Cox Models, Analyses, and Extensions | 35 |
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| 1 Extended Cox and Accelerated Models in Reliability, with General Censoring and Truncation | 36 |
| 2 Corrected Score Estimation in the Cox Regression Model with Misclassified Discrete Covariates | 55 |
| 3 A Varying-Coeffcient Hazards Regression Model for Multiple Cross-E.ect | 65 |
| 4 Closure Properties and Diagnostic Plots for the Frailty Distribution in Proportional Hazards Models | 75 |
| 5 Multivariate Survival Data With Censoring | 86 |
| PART II Reliability Theory Degradation Models | 97 |
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| 6 Virtual (Biological) Age Versus Chronological Age | 98 |
| 7 A Competing Risks Model for Degradation and Traumatic Failure Times | 111 |
| 8 Generalized Birth and Death Processes as Degradation Models | 122 |
| 9 Nonperiodic Inspections to Guarantee a Prescribed Level of Reliability | 135 |
| 10 Optimal Incomplete Maintenance for Weibull Failure Processes | 152 |
| 11 Are Nonhomogeneous Poisson Process Models Preferable to General-Order Statistics Models for Software Reliability Estimation? | 161 |
| 12 Multistate System Reliability Assessment by Using the Markov Reward Model | 177 |
| PART III Inferential Analysis | 193 |
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| 13 Asymptotic Certainty Bands for Kernel Density Estimators Based upon a Bootstrap Resampling Scheme | 194 |
| 14 Estimation of Rescaled Distribution | 210 |
| 15 Nested Plans for Sequential Change Point Detection The Parametric Case | 222 |
| 16 Sampling in Survival Analysis and Estimation with Unknown Selection Bias and Censoring | 235 |
| 17 Testing the Acceleration Function in Lifetime Models | 247 |
| 18 Recent Achievements in Modified Chi-Squared Goodness-of-Fit Testing | 262 |
| 19 Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Pareto Distribution | 280 |
| 20 Application of Inverse Problems in Epidemiology and Biodemography | 296 |
| PART IV Analysis of Censored Data | 313 |
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| 21 A Sampling-Based Chi-Squared Test for Interval-Censored Data | 314 |
| 22 Semiparametric Regression Models for Interval-Censored Survival Data, With and Without Frailty E.ects | 326 |
| 23 Exact Likelihood Inference for an Exponential Parameter Under Progressive Hybrid Censoring Schemes | 337 |
| PART V Quality of Life | 349 |
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| 24 Sequential Analysis of Quality-of-Life Measurements Using Mixed Rasch Models | 350 |
| 25 Measuring Degradation of Quality-of-Life Related to Pollution in the SEQAP Study | 365 |
| 26 A Bayesian Ponders The Quality of Life | 384 |
| 27 On the Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Some Continuous Time Processes | 398 |
| 28 Nonparametric Estimation of Integral Functionals for Semi-Markov Processes with Application in Reliability | 417 |
| 29 Estimators for Partially Observed Markov Chains | 431 |
| 30 On Solving Statistical Problems for the Stochastic Processes by the Su.cient Empirical Averaging Method | 446 |
| 31 Adaptive Designs for Group Sequential Clinical Survival Experiments | 457 |
| 32 Optimal Two-Treatment Repeated Measurement Designs for Two Periods | 470 |
| PART VIII Measures of Divergence, Model Selection, and Survival Models | 480 |
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| 33 Discrepancy-Based Model Selection Criteria Using Cross-Validation | 481 |
| 34 Focused Information Criteria for the Linear Hazard Regression Model | 495 |
| 35 On Measures of Information and Divergence and Model Selection Criteria | 511 |
| 36 Entropy and Divergence Measures for Mixed Variables | 527 |
| PART IX New Statistical Challenges | 543 |
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| 37 Clinical Trials and the Genomic Evolution: Some Statistical Perspectives | 544 |
| Index | 559 |
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